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Toll Bar Cottage, Keswick
Toll Bar Cottage
site name:-   road, Penrith to Keswick
locality:-   Brigham
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
locality type:-   toll house
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY27442381
1Km square:-   NY2723
10Km square:-   NY22


photograph
BLT73.jpg (taken 3.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 2) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"TP"
line across the road 

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of Derwentwater and its Environs, scale about 13 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
CL152623.jpg
"Turnpike Gate"
line across road to Penrith, and toll house 
item:-  private collection : 169
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old directory:- Jollie 1811
placename:-  Brigham Tollgate
source data:-   Guide book, Jollie's Cumberland Guide and Directory, published by Francis Jollie and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1811.
"Foster Thomas, Brigham toll-gate"

evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P092, button  goto source
Page 92:-  "... At the distance of half-a-mile from Keswick, on the Penrith road, just through the toll-bar, a bridge crosses the Greta. ..."

 Act of Parliament

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Toll Bar Cottage
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TOLL BAR COTTAGE / / CHESTNUT HILL / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71768 / NY2744323806"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Late C18, stone and slate with a slate roof, 1 and 2 storeys, built on hillside. Casement windows with small panes. Polygonal projection with pyramidal roof, a blocked round-arched window in front on ground floor, a small window above, and a casement on ground floor at each side. Single storeyed flanking wings with catslide roofs."

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